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I strongly disagree with this act being a step in the right direction. I would strongly urge readers to Google “Obamacare Organizational Chart” and see for yourself what a massive bureaucratic behemoth this would create. There will be 159 new bureaucratic entities with thousands of new government employees including 16,000 new IRS agents.

Physicians and hospitals will be buried in thousands of pages of new regulations and mandates. Talk to any physician and ask them what their cost is to comply with government regulations. It’s bad enough for over half of them to consider early retirement. Obamacare will definitely push many of them over the edge. That will be bad news if we are adding 10 million or more new insureds into the system.

One of the new Obama boards will be the Independent Payment Advisory Board. These Bureaucrats are appointed by the president and have the authority to decide who gets care and who doesn’t.

So, if you are over 60 years old and need major surgery, your care may be denied because this board may decide you are “not worth the expense.” How chilling is that? This board can only be repealed with a two-thirds vote of Congress.

We will also have 21 new taxes. Seven of them will directly impact the middle class. Thanks to the Supreme Court, we will now have a “new class” of tax. Now we will be taxed if we choose not to buy something. How much sense does that make? This was a “strange and tortured” decision by Justice Roberts. Our only hope now is to repeal it by voting the right people into office.

We do need reform, but a socialist health care system is not the answer.

Danny Weitzel, Greeley

Well the socialist liberal Greeley Tribune expressed their view on Obamacare, so I will express mine.

I think it is one of the worst laws ever passed in the history of our country. First they say it is no different then paying insurance on a car. There is a little bit of difference. You’re not forced to pay for insurance on a car; if you don’t drive a car, you don’t have to take out insurance. That is something you are not forced to buy only if you drive.

If you would check with some of the insurance companies, I think you would find about 30 percent drive without insurance. They take an insurance policy out get their drivers license then drop insurance. The government doesn’t know how to stop it or doesn’t want to.

I agree something needed to be done about our health system but not this radical socialist law.

And another part of the law that you say is good is that children can stay on there parents’ insurance until they are 26. When are these kids going to grow up and put there big boy and big girl pants on and be adults and take of themselves? And what is going to happen when Christian doctors are told by the government to do abortions and they won’t do it? And doctors are told what tests they can run on a patient? We might have doctors leaving their practice and not enough going into medicine. Then we will have a shortage of doctors then we will be going back to medicine in the 1950s.

If Obama would have worked his first two years when he had the Congress working on the economy and jobs like he promised he would do in his first term, people would have jobs and could provide their own insurance.

Betty White, Greeley

There were two interesting pieces in Sundays’ Tribune (July 1) that truly reflect the sad state of the direction our Congress is taking.

The editorial on the recent health care decision is totally correct in its assessment of the benefits of the law. Having worked 14 years for a large medical facility as patient accounts manager, I can attest that the losses for non-insured patients are passed along to the insured.

This country must seek a solution to this problem – which has existed for decades – and this is, though not perfect, the first step.

Along with this came the report of a bankrupt solar industry company right here in Colorado. This is due primarily to low cost Chinese solar panels flooding our markets. This is an industry we pioneered and are now letting it slip away. Our Congress, primarily the misguided Republican side, seems to feel that a “win” on health care is all that matters; not the solution to the problem.

If they put more energy into helping our industries survive against the on-going Chinese flood of cheap goods (much of which is subsided by their government), we would insure more employment for our citizens. Instead, these Republicans rant and rave about the “liberal” president and his “socialist” agenda.

Keep in mind that these same people have full medical coverage (plus other benefits) paid for by our tax dollars. But wait … is that not “socialism”?